There are only three days left to book in for A. R. Levett’s Mapping Your Story 12-Week course for the special price of $400 WAWU members / $500 general public. Bookings close Sunday 25 February 2018. After that, the price goes back up to $1,000 per person. Limited places. Seats are filling up fast, so be sure to book your place today.

People who book for the full course receive a free raffle ticket for 3 chances to win a 3,000-word Manuscript Assessment by A. R. Levett, The Story Mentor, valued at $80!

The course runs from Sunday 4 March 2018 to Sunday 2 December 2018. See flyer below for full dates and times.

Unsure if you want to enrol in the full course? Then book for the first workshop on 4 March 2018 at Mattie Furphy House, FAWWA, Swanbourne, for just $40 WAWU members / $50 general public to see how useful it is for your developing writing project. Then, those who want to book for the remaining 11 sessions after this can pay only $360 WAWU members / $450 general public.

Mapping Your Story is useful for all writers struggling to develop an idea or stuck with an unwieldy story. Through an emphasis on key writing exercises, it offers writers guidance, building your story up from the premise and guiding you through developing and better understanding your story’s conflict, characters, theme, world, symbols, plot, scenes, and dialogue. Click here for the full course outline.

If you’re a pantser or discovery writer, this is an ideal course for helping you get to grips with your story. If you’re a plotter, you will learn a lot of useful techniques for shaping your story.

Over the past three years, A. R. Levett has offered an assortment of services to help writers, from Story Reviews and Editing services, to Workshops and Courses. As the demand for these services has increased, A. R. Levett has decided to separate his Story Mentoring services from his author website, turning them into his new business, The Story Mentor. Fear not, he will still offer the same professional services and great value, only from a brand-new website: https://www.thestorymentor.com.au/

What’s more, while he will still be offering the same services you love, such as Story Reviews (now Manuscript Assessments), Revision (now Substantive Editing), and Editing (now Copy Editing), he will be offering more services to give writers the very best support when it comes to their stories. These services include Story Mentoring, which is monthly meetings where he reviews and discusses your work and writing journey with you, Poetry Reviews, which will introduce manuscript assessments for poetry, and Ghost Writing, which offer you the ability to have A. R. Levett write your story for you.

What’s more, as The Story Mentor, A. R. Levett will be offering a wider range of workshops and courses to give you all the information you need to write that best-seller. And in the future, The Story Mentor plans to offer you even more new services, such as typesetting, transcription, proof reading, and even writing retreats to cater to all your writing needs.

Since workshop and courses are being run at the moment, it will take a little while before they migrate over to the new website, but the information will remain here until then and still continue to be valid until it is moved.

Be sure to visit the new website (https://www.thestorymentor.com.au/) and pick up a brochure from your local writing centre or library to see how The Story Mentor can help you.

Don’t forget: there’s only one week left until bookings for A. R. Levett’s Mapping Your Story 12-week course close. Don’t miss out on your last chance to attend the course for under half-price at $400 WAWU members/$500 general public.

A. R. Levett’s Mapping Your Story course is recommended for writers who have a completed early draft of their story that needs a lot of finessing before it fully captures your vision or for writers who have an idea and need to work it through the various development stages until they have a completed first draft.

Don’t miss out on your last opportunity to undertake this $1,000 course for the special price of $400 WAWU* members / $500 General Public. That’s a discount of $600 WAWU members / $500 General Public!

If you’re unsure about undertaking the full course, then why not book for the first session, Developing a Potent Story Premise, for just $40 WAWU* members / $50 General Public. Then once you see how much the full course will benefit you, you can then enrol in the full course for $360 WAWU* members / $450 General Public.

Those who enrol in the full course receive a free ticket to go into the draw to win one of three vouchers for a 3,000 word Manuscript Assessment / Story Review valued at $60! One ticket will be drawn on 4 March 2018, 5 August 2018, and 2 December 2018.

If you are still not convinced to enrol in the course, then read the testimonials from previous course participants here.

Please be aware that due to the limited number of spaces and the need to prepare materials for each participant, walk-ins on the day will be turned away without a prior booking with A. R. Levett. Bookings essential!

Bookings close 6pm 25 February 2018.

Mapping Your Story is a 12-week writing exercise driven creative writing course that guides participants through developing different storytelling elements, such as conflict, character, theme, symbolism, and plot in order to flesh out and better understand your story. Each week delves deeper into the storytelling process so that by the end of the course you will know your story so well you will be able to push forward and finish writing it.

The first-session, Developing a Potent Story Premise, takes you back to the core of your idea and builds it up through ten writing exercises. During the workshop, you will discover the challenges inherent in your idea and determine how to best overcome them, locate your best character, develop their story arc, map the spine of the story, discern why it’s a story only you can tell, and more.

There are only four days left until the Special Offer to trial the first session of A. R. Levett's Mapping Your Story course for $35 WAWU Members* / $45 General Public runs out. With places filling up fast, be sure to book your place today.

This Special Offer entitles a person to attend the first workshop, Developing a Potent Story Premise, for just $35 WAWU* members / $45 General Public. Once you have sampled the workshop and seen how beneficial it is for developing your story, you can choose to book in for the remaining 11 Mapping Your Story workshops and pay only $365 WAWU* members / $455 General Public. That’s great value! The workshop will be held at Mattie Furphy House on 4 March 2018 from 1pm - 4pm. Offer expires 3 February 2018. To book in for this special offer, please email A. R. Levett before 3 February 2018 and quote the code MYS3218.

The Developing a Potent Premise workshop helps participants realise the full potential of their story idea, taking them back to the core idea where they can find the challenges inherent in it and find solutions to them, locate the best character, his or her main action, and determine his or her character change, and find a way to tell the story in a way only you can.

Mapping Your Story is a 12-week course that runs from 4 March - 2 December 2018. Each session guides participants through different aspects of story development, from developing a premise, conflict, believable characters, story world, and an organic plot, to injecting a theme and potent symbolism, and writing powerful scenes and dialogue. Each session builds on the last, building your story in layers so you end up with a fully-realised story.For full course details, please see the Mapping Your Story page or see the flyer below for more course information. Full course bookings close 25 February 2018.

* WAWU members include existing members of FAWWA, KSP, PCWC, OOTA, and WAPI.

This fourth session focused on deepening participants’ understanding of their characters, especially the protagonist and antagonist.

‘I really enjoyed the writing exercises,’ said Odile Pouliquen-Young. ‘Going back to refine the exercises from Weaving a Strong Character Web deepened my understanding of character arc.’

Anne Forbes agreed. ‘The workshop really helped me to develop my story and refine my hero’s desire. It helped me identify a hole in my plot and the driving of the hero’s actions, so it has really helped me redefine what pushes my hero.’

Although protagonists receive most of the attention in a story, it was developing their opponents that participants found most enjoyable.

‘Villains are cool,’ said Alia Bath, ‘elaborating on their characters is fun and important.’

Four weeks into Mapping Your Novel, the group is beginning to see how the concepts introduced in the previous three session are beginning to build up their story a layer at a time.

‘The concepts are beginning to coalesce into a whole and more easily put into practice,’ said Odile. ‘I can see the value of following the workshop exercises as my writing evolves.’

Overall, participants are satisfied with both the content of the course and their evolving stories.

‘The discussions are enlightening,’ said Amy Parker.

Katika Harris agreed. ‘I really enjoyed talking about what makes a character interesting.’

‘The workshop was very informative,’ summarised Garry Winterton. ‘I’m learning more than I expected.’

A. R. Levett is running a new stream of this course, called Mapping Your Story, at the Fellowship of Australian Writers Western Australia from 4 March 2018 for the heavily discounted rate of $400 WAWU members/ $500 General Public. Places are limited. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to snag a bargain for what current participants are calling ‘an enjoyable and comprehensive course.’ (Amy). To book or enquire about the course, please email A. R. Levett.

Unsure whether you want to commit to the full 12 weeks of A. R. Levett's Mapping Your Story course? Then book for just the first workshop, Developing a Potent Story Premise, for just $35 WAWU members / $45 General Public*. Once you have sampled the workshop and seen how beneficial it is for developing your story, you can choose to book in for the remaining 11 workshops and pay only $365 WAWU** members / $455 General Public. That’s great value!

The workshop will be held at Mattie Furphy House on 4 March 2018 from 1pm - 4pm.

* Offer ends 3 February 2018.

To book in for this special offer, please email A. R. Levett before 3 February 2018 and quote the code MYS3218.

For full course details, please see the Mapping Your Story page or see the flyer below for more course information. Course bookings close 25 February 2018.

** WAWU members include existing members of FAWWA, KSP, PCWC, OOTA, and WAPI.

On 2 February 2018, A. R. Levett will be performing a 10 minute poetry reading at the Sunset Poetry event. Sunset Poetry, an event run and organised by Western Australian Poets Incorporated (WAPI), will feature a variety of Western Australian poets reading work on the topic on liminality, which refers to transitory spaces that foreground the borders associated with life-changing events. A. R. Levett will be reading poems that deal with personally confronting situations from his and other people's lives that prompted change.